How to escape single quotes within single quoted strings

Question

Let\'s say, you have a Bash alias like:

alias rxvt=\'urxvt\'

which works fine.

However:

Answer 1

I'm not specifically addressing the quoting issue because, well, sometimes, it's just reasonable to consider an alternative approach.

rxvt() { urxvt -fg "#${1:-000000}" -bg "#${2:-FFFFFF}"; }

which you can then call as:

rxvt 123456 654321

the idea being that you can now alias this without concern for quotes:

alias rxvt='rxvt 123456 654321'

or, if you need to include the # in all calls for some reason:

rxvt() { urxvt -fg "${1:-#000000}" -bg "${2:-#FFFFFF}"; }

which you can then call as:

rxvt '#123456' '#654321'

then, of course, an alias is:

alias rxvt="rxvt '#123456' '#654321'"

(oops, i guess i kind of did address the quoting :)